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Delicious Peach Mangoes

Peaches stuffed with onions, ginger, seeds, turmeric, sugar, oil, and covered in vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and turmeric match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,776 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Delicious Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make a stuffing by combining small white onions, grated green ginger, celery seed, black mustard seed, turmeric, and sugar.

  2. Mix in enough sweet oil to form a stiff paste.

Stuff and preserve

  1. Stuff each peach with the mixture and tie them up.

  2. Place the stuffed peaches in a jar and cover with cold vinegar.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Celery + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Mustard + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Celery + turmerictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,356 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps preserve the peaches and balance the vinegar's sharpness.
Black mustard seed
Adds a sharp, pungent flavour to the stuffing.
Small white onions
Adds savoury flavour and body to the stuffing.
Cold vinegar
Acidifies the jar, adding tang and helping to preserve the fruit.

The step that matters

Stuffing each peach and covering with vinegar. The stuffing must be firm enough to stay inside the peach while it is tied. Covering fully with vinegar keeps the fruit submerged, which helps prevent spoilage and maintains its acidity during storage.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, celery, mustard, turmeric, sugar, vinegar):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Radishfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, celery, mustard, turmeric, sugar, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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